Fortnightly News 17/2/2023
Issue 03 of 2023
17th February 2023
DATES TO REMEMBER
**Thursday 9 March – Advance Care Planning
**31 March, 1 and 2 April 2023 – our BIG BOOK FAIR
ADVANCE CARE PLANNING
The Advance Care Planning Program, Canberra Health Services, is offering an information session on Advance Care Planning at Woden Seniors Club on
Thursday 9th March 11.00am-12.30pm
Advance Care Planning (ACP) gives you the opportunity to think about, discuss, record and share your preferences for health care in advance if you ever become unable to express them for yourself.
This will help doctors and family members to be aware of your preferences in order to make treatment decisions.
ACP also involves legally nominating who would make decisions about your medical treatment on your behalf if you ever lose capacity to make decisions for your yourself. (Enduring Power of Attorney)
The session will provide information, question and answer session as well as assistance to complete documents.
To ensure everyone has a chance to ask questions and understand what Advance Care Planning means for you, the session needs to be limited to about 30 participants. Please contact Polly at the Club, tel. 6282 2573 or email to admin@wodenseniors.org.au to book a place.
If there are more people interested than can be accommodated on Thursday 9th March, the Program Team are willing to schedule further sessions for us, and on other than Thursdays if that is preferred.
BIG Book Fair
With six weeks to go before our next BIG Book Fair it is time to start talking about it to all and sundry! Next week there will be plenty of posters and bookmarks for you to hand out. So, take some and do your bit! Many local businesses are happy to put a poster in their window and local organisations are happy to have one on their noticeboard. The bookmarks are great to hand out to fellow participants in groups that you attend and, along with the small posters, are easy to put in letterboxes in your neighbourhood.
The hard-working sorting groups have been very busy in the last few weeks. If you are planning to donate books, please do so soon as we cannot manage donations at the Book Fair or on the days immediately prior.
Our Book Fair is a BIG event that requires lots of helpers, especially for setting up the day before and packing up at the end of the last day. We will be collecting the names of prospective volunteers soon. So please think about it.
FROM EARLIER TIMES –
A concert by members for members – 2018.
Jenny Gregory
President
Woden Seniors Inc.
PO Box 345, Woden ACT 2606
Tel: (02) 6282 2573
Email: president@wodenseniors.org.au
COMMUNITY NOTICES AND INFORMATION
And if you haven’t totally lost interest by now………….
“A golfer was 30 over par by the seventh hole, had lost 3 golf balls in the water hazard and hit the bunker on every single hole, when his caddy coughed during a 30cm putt.
The golfer erupted. “You must be the worst caddy in the world!” he screamed.
“I doubt it,” replied the caddy. “That would be too much of a coincidence.”
The police have reported the theft of a shipment of filing cabinets, document folders and labelling machines. It is believed to have been the work of organized crime.
A panel of doctors was asked for their opinions concerning a proposal to add a new wing to their hospital:
The allergists voted to scratch it
The neurologists thought the administration had a lot of nerve
The podiatrists thought it was a step forward
The ophthalmologists considered the idea to be short sighted
The plastic surgeons felt it would give the building the facelift it so desperately needed
The morticians yelled “Over my dead body”
The surgeons decided to wash their hands of the whole thing
The cardiologists did not have the heart to say no.